{"id":503,"date":"2012-03-25T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:42:25","slug":"2012-03-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting votes \u2014 Which Flawed System Do You Prefer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Dr. Keith Devlin<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Mar. 25, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"2012-03-25-Devlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-25-Devlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-25-Devlin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-25-Devlin-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The elections in San Francisco last fall highlighted once again the thorny issue of how votes are counted, with the poll results being counted on that occasion using the ranked-choice system. Is that the best method? On the face of it, you\u2019d expect mathematics to provide the answer, as it does on so many occasions.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when it comes to the democratic process, the one thing mathematicians are sure of is there is no perfect method. Dr. Keith Devlin, Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University, and \u201cthe Math Guy\u201d on National Public Radio, will explain some of the flaws of all the systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50660512\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/50660512\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-03-25): Counting Votes &mdash; Which Flawed System Do You Prefer? (Dr. Keith Devlin)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Keith Devlin Mar. 25, 2012 The elections in San Francisco last fall highlighted once again the thorny issue of how votes are counted, with the poll results being counted on that occasion using the ranked-choice system. Is that the best method? On the face of it, you\u2019d expect mathematics to provide the answer, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Counting votes \u2014 Which Flawed System Do You Prefer?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}